TEPPO FELIN
professor of strategy
university of oxford saïd business school  teppo.felin[atsign]sbs.ox.ac.
uk
+44 (0) 7860 778987
twitter @teppofelin
research interests
` microfoundations ` capabilities
` beliefs and rationality `
structure and design ` crowds
` anything interdisciplinary  editing
` co-editor of Strategic Organization -
with Russ Coff, Ann Langley, Tim Rowley
` Academy of Management Review - editorial board
previous affiliations
Marriott School, BYU - Provo, UT
Goizueta Business School, Emory University - Atlanta, GA
2013-2014 Oxford seminars + talks
Michael Cusumano, MIT Mauro Guillen, Wharton Ezra Zuckerman, MIT Russ Coff, U of Wisconsin
Kim Elsbach, UC Davis
Jennifer Howard-Grenville, U of Oregon Mark de Rond, U of Cambridge Royston Greenwood, U of Alberta Nicolai Foss, Copenhagen Business School David Seidl, U of Zurich Erkko Autio, Imperial College Gianpiero Petriglieri, INSEAD Matthew Bothner, ESMT Felipe Csaszar, U of Michigan Andrea Prencipe, LUISS Arne Kalleberg, UNC (sociology) | publications Felin, T., Kauffman, S., Koppl, R. & Longo, G. (2014). Economic opportunity and evolution: Beyond landscapes and bounded rationality. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. [html]
Felin, T. & Zenger, T. (2014). Closed or open innovation? Problem solving and the governance choice. Research Policy. [open access] [pdf]  Felin, T., Foss, N., & Ployhart, R. (2015). The microfoundations movement in strategy and organization theory. Academy of Management Annals. Felin, T. (2015). Valve Corporation: Strategy tipping points and thresholds. Journal of Organization Design.
Koppl, R., Kauffman, S., Felin, T., & Longo, G. (2014a). Economics for a creative world. Journal of Institutional Economics. Koppl, R., Kauffman, S., Felin, T., & Longo, G. (2014b). Economics for a creative world: a response to comments. Journal of Institutional Economics. Abell, P., Felin, T. Foss, N. & Abell, P. (2014). Microfoundations of social theory: A response to Jepperson and Meyer. Sociologica. [pdf] Barney, J. & Felin, T. (2013). What are microfoundations? Academy of Management Perspectives. [scribd] special forum on microfoundations, with contributions by Sid Winter, Nicolai Foss, Henrich Greve and Andy Van de Ven. Argyres, N., Felin, T., Foss, N., & Zenger, T. (2012). Organizational economics of capability and heterogeneity. Organization Science. [html] [scribd] Felin, T. (2012). Cosmologies of capability, markets and wisdom of crowds. Managerial and Decision Economics. [html]  Felin, T. & Foss, N. (2012). The (proper) microfoundations of routines and capabilities: a response to Winter, Pentland, Hodgson and Knudsen. Journal of Institutional Economics. [pdf] Felin, T., Foss, N., Heimeriks, & Madsen, T. (2012). Microfoundations of routines and capabilities: individuals, processes and structures. Journal of Management Studies. Stirling, W., Giraud-Carrier, C., & Felin, T. (2012). A framework for the design and synthesis of coordinated social systems. Social Informatics. Zenger, T., Felin, T. & Bigelow, L. (2011). Theories of the firm-market boundary. Academy of Management Annals. [html] [pdf] Felin, T. & Foss, N. (2011). The endogenous origins of experience, routines and organizational capabilities: the poverty of stimulus. Journal of Institutional Economics. [pdf] [html]
 Felin, T. & Foss, N.J. (2009). Performativity of theory, arbitrary conventions, and possible worlds: a reality check. Organization Science. [pdf] [html] Felin, T. & Zenger, T. (2009). Entrepreneurs as theorists: on the origins of collective beliefs and novel strategies. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. [pdf] [html] Felin, T. & Hesterly, W.S. (2007). The knowledge-based view, nested heterogeneity, and new value creation: philosophical considerations on the locus of knowledge. Academy of Management Review. [pdf] [html] Felin, T. & Foss, N.J. (2006). Individuals and organizations: thoughts on a microfoundations project for strategic management and organizational analysis. Research Methodology in Strategy and Management. | guest editing "judgment and capability aggregation" special issue - with contributions by Cass Sunstein, Reid Hastie, Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo, Dan Levinthal [html] come join our DPhil (PhD) program  publications cont'd Stirling, W. & Felin, T. (2013). Game theory, conditional preferences and social influence. PLoS ONE. [html]  Felin, T. & Knudsen, T. (2012). A theory of nascent entrepreneurship and organization. Managerial and Decision Economics. [pdf] Felin, T. & Zenger, T. (2011). Information aggregation, matching, and radical market-hierarchy hybrids. Strategic Organization. [pdf] [html] King, B., Felin, T. & Whetten, D (2010). Finding the organization in organization theory: a meta-theory of the organization as social actor. Organization Science. [pdf] [html] Abell, P., Felin, T. & Foss, N.J. (2010). Causal and constitutive relations and the squaring of coleman's diagram: reply to Vromen. Erkenntnis. [html]  Felin, T. & Foss, N.J. (2009). Social reality, the boundaries of self-fulfilling prophecy, and economics. Organization Science. [pdf] [html] response by Ferraro, Pfeffer & Sutton. How and why theories matter: a comment on Felin and Foss [see here]; editor introduction [see here] Felin, T. & Foss, N.J. (2009). Organizational routines and capabilities: Historical drift and a course-correction toward microfoundations. Scandinavian Journal of Management. [html] King, B., Felin, T. & Whetten, D. (2009). Comparative organizational analysis. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. [pdf] review of volume by Peter Foreman in Administrative Science Quarterly (2010).Felin, T. & Spender, J.C. (2009). An exchange of ideas about knowledge governance: seeking first principles and microfoundations. In Knowledge Governance, edited by Foss et al. Oxford University Press. Whetten, D., Felin, T. & King, B (2009). Felin, T., Zenger, T., & Tomsik, J. (2009). The knowledge economy: emerging organizational forms, missing microfoundations and key considerations for managing human capital. Human Resource Management. Abell, P., Felin, T. & Foss, N.J. (2008). |